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New! Starting on July 12, 2021, the African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Room will provide access by appointment only between the hours of 9:30 am – 12:30 pm and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Monday - Friday. Please submit an Ask a Librarian form or call (202) 707-4188 to schedule an appointment. Read important information here.
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From left: 18th century
Middle East book binding; The
Washington Haggadah;
Kente Cloth
Of Special Interest:
African Section:
Africana Historic Postcard Collection
Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series
Digital Collection:
Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
Obama Memorabilia from
Africa
[PDF, 214 KB]
Omar Ibn Said Collection
Hebraic Section:
Checklists of Items from Past Displays
Illustrated Children's Books
and Periodicals in
Hebrew and Yiddish, 1900-1929
[PDF, 14 MB]
Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Books at the Library of Congres
[also in PDF version, 1MB]
Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912–2012
Yizkor-Memorial Book Collection: A New and Expanded Finding Aid
Near East Section:
Abdul-Hamid II Digital Collection of Books and Serials Gifted to the Library of Congress
Armenian Rarities
Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III
Eltaher Collection - Palestinian Pamphlets
Finding Aids for Manuscripts from Mt. Sinai, Mt. Athos, and the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem
The Holy Koran in the Library of Congress:
a bibliography
Online Exhibition
“A Thousand Years of
the Persian Book(Exhibition brochure)
Online Exhibition:
"To Know Wisdom and Instruction:
the Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress"
Persian Language Rare Materials
Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy |
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public access point for materials housed in the the African and Middle
Eastern Division (AMED) which include a variety of vernacular scripts,
such as Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish,
and Yiddish. Covering 77 countries from Morocco to Southern
Africa to the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, the
division's three sections--African, Hebraic, and Near East--offer in-depth
reference assistance, provide substantive briefings on a wide range of
subjects relating to these languages and cultures, produce guides to
the Library's vast resources and cooperate in developing and preserving
the Division's unparalleled collections. |
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